Nikolaus Marx MD

Nikolaus Marx is Professor of Medicine/Cardiology and Head of the Department of Internal Medicine I at University Hospital Aachen in Aachen, Germany. Professor Marx trained at the Universities of Mainz, Genf, Switzerland, and Düsseldorf, Germany, obtaining his MD in 1994. He studied growth regulation in human renal cancer cell lines at the laboratory of Professor Gerharz at the Institute of Pathology, University of Mainz. After a post-doctoral fellowship with Dr. Peter Libby and Dr. Jorge Plutzky at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Professor Marx became a board-certified internist, then cardiologist, before specialising in intensive care medicine in internal medicine at the University of Ulm.

Professor Marx is a member of several organisations within the field of cardiology and diabetes, including the German Society of Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the German Diabetes Association, and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. Professor Marx is currently an associate editor for the European Heart Journal. Professor Marx served as President of the German Atherosclerosis Society (DGAF) from 2012 to 2015 and was a board member of the German Society of Cardiology (DGK) from 2017 to 2019. Professor Marx recently served as a Task Force Co-Chair for the 2023 ESC Guidelines for the management of cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetes.